Global
Warming Update
by
Walter E. Williams
TownHall.com
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, in an hour-long television
documentary titled "Global Warming: The Other Side," presents evidence that our
National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data just as the now
disgraced and under investigation British University of East Anglia Climate
Research Unit. The NCDC is a division of the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. Its manipulated climate data is used by the Goddard
Institute of Space Studies, which is a division of the National Aeronautical and
Space Administration. John Coleman's blockbuster five-part series can be seen
here.
The Coleman documentary presents research by computer expert E. Michael Smith
and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo. During the 1960s and into
the 1980s, the number of stations used for calculating global surface
temperatures was about 6,000. By 1990, the number of stations dropped rapidly to
about 1,500. Most of the stations lost were in the colder regions of the Earth.
Not adjusting for their lost made temperatures appear to be higher than was in
fact the case. According to Science & Environmental Policy Project, Russia
reported that CRU was ignoring data from colder regions of Russia, even though
these stations were still reporting data. That means data loss was not simply
the result of station closings but deliberate decisions by CRU to ignore them in
order to hype their global warming claims. D'Aleo and Smith report that our NCDC
engaged in similar deceptive activity where they have dropped stations,
particularly in colder climates, higher elevations or closer to the polar
regions. Temperatures are now simply projected for these colder stations from
other stations, usually in warmer climates.
Mounting evidence of scientific fraud might make little difference in terms
of the response to manmade global warming hysteria. Why? Vested economic and
political interests have emerged where trillions of dollars and social control
are at stake. Therefore, many people who recognize the scientific fraud
underlying global warming claims are likely to defend it anyway. Automobile
companies have invested billions in research and investment in producing "green
cars." General Electric and Phillips have spent millions lobbying Congress to
outlaw incandescent bulbs so that they can force us to buy costly compact
fluorescent light bulbs (CFL). Farmers and ethanol manufacturers have gotten
Congress to enact laws mandating greater use of their product, not to mention
massive subsidies. Thousands of major corporations around the world have taken
steps to reduce carbon emissions including giants like IBM, Nike, Coca-Cola and
BP, the oil giant. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Dell have vowed to become
"carbon neutral."
Then there's Chicago Climate Futures Exchange that plans to trade in billions
of dollars of greenhouse gas emission allowances. Corporate America and labor
unions, as well as their international counterparts have a huge multi-trillion
dollar financial stake in the perpetuation of the global warming fraud. Federal,
state and local agencies have spent billions of dollars and created millions of
jobs to deal with one aspect or another of global warming.
It's deeper than just money. Schoolteachers have created polar-bear-dying
lectures to frighten and indoctrinate our children when in fact there are more
polar bears now than in 1950. They've taught children about melting glaciers.
Just recently, the International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit
that their Himalayan glacier-melting fraud was done to "impact policy makers and
politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
What would all the beneficiaries of the global warming hype do if it becomes
widely known and accepted that mankind's activities have very little to do with
the Earth's temperature? I don't know but a lot of people would feel and look
like idiots. But I bet that even if the permafrost returned as far south as New
Jersey, as it once did, the warmers and their congressional stooges would still
call for measures to fight global warming.
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